Applied Research

I have maintained a flow of advisory functions and contract researches. Current engagements concern the development of a research centre for gender and development in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, the selection of the new Lobby and Advocacy partnerships of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the organisation of an international conference in Addis Ababa, and research on responses to sexual violence in Congo.

2024Factsheet Opvang in de Regio: Een Vergelijkende Studie
2021International Advisory Board Global Network for Disaster Reduction
2021Advisor Tiffany Circle of NRK
2020 -2023Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment: Making Aid Work Better for the People We Serve
2019Advisory role to strengthen gender component of the ESAAP civil accountability programme of the International Rescue Committee in DRC, together with Adriaan Ferf
2018International Ombuds for Humanitarian and Development Aid Scoping Study
2014Member of the selection committee for the ‘lobby and advocacy call’ 2015-2020, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands, 2 months
2014Partners for resilience
2014Workshops and paper on ‘Dutch humanitarian aid, now and in the future’, preparation for Netherlands Humanitarian Summit, 2015
2014Social side-effects of international attention to gender-based violence in DRC
2014Academic writing, intensive training in Nepal to 5 international researchers belonging to the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, one week
2014Qualitative methodology training, Center for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka, 1 day
2012Research training in Sri Lanka to 20 international researchers belonging to the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2 weeks
2008-2011Service delivery in fragile states
2010Linking relief to development in Haiti
2007-2009Peer review on humanitarian aid
2009Micro-finance after disaster in Sri Lanka
2007Advisory trip opinion makers and journalists in Afghanistan with Dick Berlijn, Chief of Defence, Netherlands Ministry of Defence
2005-2007Response to 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka
2005Evaluation humanitarian assistance
200410 years Code of Conduct
2004Beyond Conflict: Peacebuilding Practices in the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, DRC, Rwanda), contract research, Cordaid
2003Training participatory research methodology, ZOA refugee care Nyamata, Rwanda
200310 years North Iraq programmes
2001Gender and demobilization in Eritrea
2002Evaluation of the Humanitarian aid programme of PSO Programma 1998-2001
2002Accountability in humanitarian aid
1999Villagisation in Rwanda